The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-12 00:00:00

TVIaE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing, the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, min ; $ - ,e had Every Evening of G. ft. GLhNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE' LATES C EDITION of " THE SUN" supplied, as soon as published every Evening by LIKOOKS, Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendisu street, W. 31 K. ALFRED MELLON'S CONCERTS EVER EVENING, at Eight. — ROY &L ITALIAN VPAult V. A, COVENT-GARDEN. The fol owing Artis tes will a p pear This Evening :—Md us, lle. C ar l o tta Patti, Mdlle. Marie Krebs ; Mr. Levy, Mr. Carr Ali Ben Sou-idle. and Mr. Mired Mellen's GLEE UNION. Grand Operatic Selection from LA FAVOR ITA. BAND OF ONE HUNDBED PERFORMERS. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED 'MELLON. Promen ade, Amphitheatre Stalls , and Amphitheatre, One To-morrow (Saturday!, the First Vo:nnteer Night. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--, Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. Atter which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi lier. D. Murray, J. Nelson. 11. Forre-ter. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma Barnett, and Hiss F ,nny Gwynne. I®j r-AW THEATRE-8.0 FAL, ADELPIII. sole Prooriktor and MalrWor , M 7. R. Webster. TIIIS EVENING, THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. essrs. J. L. Tool, P. Bedford, Billiwzton, Ste ,Kom,r; Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly. and 'Mrs. Bil • flcs - Ton. Atter which, at 10, THE ACTOR'S RETREAT. Messrs. J. L. Toote, P. Bediord, E. Phild, o, and Miss Woolg .r 'to conclude with a new Farce, called MY WI vE'., MAID. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. _Bedford, R. Phillips, and Mr . Alfred Mellon. Commence at 7. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, . nader the M an agement of Mr. B. W-I...BsTER. Last Night of the present Season. EVENING ( rida,y), 12th Aufoist. for the Benefit of by Arthur Sket hley, ESq. Mr, 1 . , ..nd Mrs. Chas. Mathews, and last night of their engk,e men , a new Comedy, in 3 acts, 7 o'clock the periorm nce will commence with an en- At iiew and original omedy, entitled HOW WILL THEY ‘'ET OUT OF IT ? Character by Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews., Mr. anu Mrs Frank Matthews, Mr. F. ,tobmson, Mr. H. J. Montagu, Miso Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirring. To be I,lllnwed by the new TraveBtie, entitled FAUST AND MAttGUEBITE Chas. Mathews, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr Ashley-, Mr. Montague, Mr. W. H. Eburne, Mr. W. Chamberiairee, a nd Mrs , C. Mathew. To conclude with UNDER THE HOSE. Mr. Ashley, and Miss A. Cottrell. —______ C°UNTRY and SEASIDE DRESSES. Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street, have now in stock a variety of WASHING SILK DRE7ShS, suitatle for the c ountry and seaside, and at the c.earing-out !nice of only A,i lia. 6d. the dress. JAY'S, 247, 249, and 251, Regent-street. FLACK SILKS.—The price of Silks in the ra w material has already r sen 15 per cent., and it will soon resell a far greater per-tentage. Messrs. JAY, therefore, invitk. Their numer,us patrons to take advmatage of the stock they h we on hand, which they can now dispose of on favour able terms ; but the same qualities will naturaly b.: more costly ao the price ut silk fluctuates to a higher average JAY'S, 217, 249, and 251, Regent-street. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. per ton. I Double.. 201 per ton. Top 225. „ Deep „ Welt screened and delivered within live miles 01 their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, r aCk dington, and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke lss. per chaldron. Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole P vat. The Weather—Sun Office, Aug. 12, 1864. THERMOMETER This day at Two o'clock _ _ Barometer-30 . 2 6 . WrND--S.W. ; moderate breeze, and cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tsui D.A.Y.—horsing, Bs. 10m.—Afternoon, 4.5 m. £O-xo vaow.-Morning, Oh. 26m.—Afternoon, 10i2. 24 u. , SUIT LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1861. --0- The wasaing of the splendour of our flower gar dens is amelog the regular signs of the passing away of summer; and the autumnal months, though lighting the monarchs of the woods with tints and shades which some think eclipse even the fresh ver a;ure of the spring, are only lookedio by the hurnb:e ft ) ,-iculturist as bringing the first signs of decay and deso:ation. The limited gardens in the metropolis and its vicinity generally give early evidence of the change, perhaps because their owners are in the habit of taking flight themselves early in autumn, and are therefore indifferent to the appearance of their gardens and conservatories when the reign of the rose is over. There is very little doubt that, with proper care in the selection of plants, and a due regard to their natural seasons for flowering, a garden even in this climate may be induced to pre serve a cheerful appearance through the greater part of the year. This is the fact which Sir JOSEPH PAXTON, no mean authority in the art of external decoration, has taken the opportunity of bringing tinder public notice in a letter addressed to the aaaistant secretary of the Royal Horticultural So ciety. Now the din of Parliamentary battle is for awhile suspended, and argument, lamentation, and recrimination have been well nigh exhausted about the Danish Duchies—while the American war goes on its endless round, and we have no more exciting subject to divert our attention than murders and suicides, experiments at Shoeburyness, and madmen in railway carriages, Sir JOSEPH PAXTON pro bably supposes that his remarks on the principles of horticulture generally are less likely to pass un. heeded than in the earlier days of the season. Per haps he thought, too, that the moral of his story would receive a better illustration now than when flawers abound on every side, and botanic shows and exhibitions are the order of the day. It is with regard to the merits and defects of these exhibitions that Sir JOSEPH PAXTON has written his letter, having been requested to give his opinion as to the nature and character of the exhibitions which it is most desirable that the Royal Uorticultural Society should encourage for " the true advancement of horticulture and its accompanying sciences. In the first place, Sir JOSEPH is by no means satisfied with the existing state of things, notwithstand ing the gorgeous array visible at some of our flower shows. The general condition of our horticulture is he considers artificial and unnatural, and he attributes this principally to the arrange ment of our exhibitions. They have, be considers, been advantageous in encouraging improvements in the culture and management of plants, but the good which they have effected has not been unmixed. Owing to the time of the year in which they a -, e held, the efforts of cultivators are exclus'.vely directed to the production of such plants as will bloom at the Lon4on season, to the toted disregard of ad other periods. Some plants are forced, others are artificially kept back, so that all may flower together, thus crowding into a month or two the ornaments of the year, and entirely neglect" ing those plants which will not submit to such meddlesome interference, Some years ago, the critic tells us, he called to see a first class Lone don garden of great repute. It was an exhibition day, and so only a f ew , lonely plants were visible. Again he called later in th e season, but tbe show days were altogether over, So there was n o more to be seen, for the training system had begun, and all w, s in preparation for the next year's competition. If the efforts of the Horticultural Society are directed to securing the greatest number and m ost beautiful display of Pl4llB in the half e l ozen exhi bition days of the London season they are certainly successful, but if their object is rather to en courage horticulture as a science, then these " spasmodic efforts," as Sir JOSEPH PAXTON terms them, which leave a great part of the year unemployed and unproductive, are not altogether satisfactory. The exhibition system has certainly sucznded in producing a wonderful degree of perfection in those kinds of flowers which are exhibited, and they have also rgiv en a stimulus to the culture of foliage plants which preserve a garden from the desolation of winter, still there remains a good deal more to be done before the objects of the society are tally att wined. The true object of horticulture, accorilinl to Sir JOSEPH PAXTON'S view, is "to increase the enjoyment des rivable from it, and to diffuse it as widely as poet. Bible ; to enable the owners of gardens to get the greatest amount of pleasure and satisfaction f rom their possessions, and to enable the general public to procure the greatest number of fruit, flowers, and vegetables, in the greatest quantity, of the best kinds, and at the cheapest pricts." These are certainly all matters of public concern, and, indeed, since the new fashion of choosing suburban residences has been so exten sively followed, great numbers are interested in the consideration of the best method of gardening, who of old scarcely gave a thought to the matter. It is one of the most graceful of sciences, while the cul ture of these beautiful works of nature is among the most innocent and healthful of recreations for the mind and exhausted energies. Its tendency is soothing and refining, and is to be by no means despised as a means of diffusing taste and cultiva tion. Let us see how Sir JOSEPH PAXTON proposesto encourage this taste. There should, he thinks, be something like a continuous exhibition, so that gardeners should have no interest in forcing their plants into flower at unnatural seasons, nor should they be induced to neglect those which blossom at un fashionable times of the year. At one time the Horticultural Society had fortnightly shows at their great room in Regent-street, where nursery men brought their new plants or fruits, or any unusually beautiful specimens at any time of the year. This was, Sir JOSEPH thinks, a very bene ficial practice, and he proposes that something of the kind should be restored. During the spring and summer months he would have the exhibitions weekly, and nave them held in a place where they might be suffered, when owned by nurserymen, to remain all the time they were in flower. This woald be independent of the great exhibitions which are too beautiful and too fashionable to be altogether abandoned, but some supplementary effort of the kind es ould probably do great good. Weekly or fortnightly exhibitions would probably be too frequent at least at first, but monthly or quarterly shows might with advantage be este btished. At all events the question is sufficiently interesting to deserve attentive consideration. The Report of the Directors of Convict Prisons is now published, and its contents are sure to attract attention at this juncture, since so much excitement has prevailed on the subject for some time, and during the past session so much pains was taken to effect some desirable changes in the department re lating to convict discipline. It was time that the question again underwent revision, for grievous errors had crept into the management, and if no• thing of a remedial nature had been done it is diffi cult to say at what point the evil would have stopped, and at all events it would have been more tedious to make a change. The greatest care and attention appears generally to be exercised by the authorities whose special duty it is to have the supervision of these unhappy outcasts ; but it is a very difficult thing to determine which is the best mode of treatment, and after the mature delibera tions of experienced men of all kinds, the matter has to be left to the test of practice. That test has I shown us that the latest attempt to temporise with crime, as it were, has been an utter failure. Stern and vigorous treatment i 3 the only right coarse to pursue; it is useless to adopt a line of action which may make the working of the prison routine more easy and successful for the time, but infallibly res salts in the production of serious evils, both to the men themselves and society at large. Two causes of the late plan pursued of rendering the term of imprisonment so easy to pass and SO shorn of the terrors of the law tended to swell the lists of returned prisoners. In the first place, the notion of penal ser vitude was in a great measure divested of its horrors by the facile manner in which the prisoners were treated ; and, secondly, the easy life passed in their bondage did not improve the check that a course of salutary discipline would most probably have Effected. On all accounts it is very satisfactory to know that a change has come over the spirit of this dream of utopian convict life, for the reaction would have been great after co much false laxity and moderation had been shown. The plans now pro posed are but simple modifications of the system, but they are begun in the right spirit, and if not found to be sufficiently stringent, it will be easy to make still more severe regulations. The Directors have made a most elaborate statement, and been at great pains to present a fair estimate of the state of each prison. It will be seen that the ticket-of. leave system was in want of some change in consequence of the number of re -convictions. The number of the female prisoners who were re convicted has hitherto been much less than that of the males, hut of late years there has been a great increase. The cause of this unhappy augmentation has been said to be the " comparatively short sen tences of recent years, the want of means for assisting and supervising them on discharge, and in some degree, perhaps, from defective prison arrangements." Doubtless the short sentences that have been passed of late years have done great harm, for in the cases of the most desperate assaults it has often happened that a most inade quate term for confinement has been apportioned. It is a most unwise thing, for the ends of justice are not answered by this means, and all reports agree in denouncing the practice. The criminals come to consider the whole affair of the trial, sen tence, and imprisonment, as a sort of farce, and one merely to be got through as quick as possible. The question of providing shelter and employment for the discharged prisoners, especially the female ones, is a very serious consideration. It is a pain. ful picture which the returns present to us of these fallen creatures, driven from one place to another, till in sheer desperation they are often compelled to take refuge with their old associates. Besides, the prisoners who show every desire to become reformed members of society, the wavering and even evil dis posed might often be reclaimed if the right means were at hand on a timely opportunity. It is im possible to define a limit to the number who would be induced to change their ways, if immediately after they emerge from the quiet and comparative innocence of their course in prison some fitting em ployment were ready for them. This again proves the desirability of sending convicts who are sentenced for long periods to Western Australia. Their removal would leave more scope for their con feds rates in crime whose shorter sentences send them out again on the world after a brief period of detention. In the contemplation of reports many only look to the ste. tisticai part of the affair, as to how many suffered imprisonment, for whet cause they were convicted, and how often they were re-convic ed ; but apart from these established facts there are grave matters to reflect upon concerning the inner details of those lives of which we are furnished with the broad out lines. Until some important change has been effected in that branch of prison management which refers to the career of the prieeoe: after he has left prison, there will always be much to deplore and lament in the returns presented to notice every successive year.. Some very desirable changes have been made at Millbank, in pursuance of the advice tendered by the Commission of 1863. The period of separate confinement which each convict has to undergo at the commencement of his term of imprisonment has been rendered more in accordance with the spirit of such a sentence, than only the latter, as has hitherto been too much the case, and already some beneficial changes have been observed. It has also been agreed upon to alter the dietary in the prisons, and in consequence of this revolution an amended form has been instituted, which involves a very large reduction in the old scale of diet. Nearly one day's food in the week has been struck off the aggregate allowance. This is a very wise alteration, and it is to be hoped that the same coarse will be pursued in all prisons, and persisted in notwithstanding any temporary out . breaks or disturbances that may result therefrom. It stands to reason that the old fashion of pamper. ing prisoners was a very impolitic one, and likely to be productive of the worst effects as regarded discipline, and involving a salutary change in the lives and dispositions of these men. The arrange ments have also been altered regarding the public work prisons, and more strict rules laid down. The sub-divisions made will make separation between the prisoners more than has hitherto been the case, and this again will doubtless operate to effect a salutary change, it having been shown that there were " evils attendant on the massing together of such large bodies of convicts as are assembled on the public works." A very satisfactory account is given of the successes met with by the Prisoners' Aid Society. It is stated that no less than five hundred and odd cases were undertaken by it in one year, and the large majo• city of these were satisfactorily provided for. At the conclusion of this report a very proper tribute is paid to the memory of Sir JOSHUA JEBB, With• out doubt he rendered great and important services to the State by the zeal and ability which he dis played in the conduct of the intricate affairs which he was called upon to manage, and it is truly stated here that, whatever changes recent experience may deem desirable, "no one conversant with the state of the hulks and English prisons when he was called on by the Government to undertake their manage ment, can fail to acknowledge the debt of gratitude that is due to the late Sir JOSUHA JEBB." TII E, SUI, LONDON, FEIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1864. BANK OF FRANCE. (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) PARIS, August 11. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week, together with the corresponding figures of the previous account : AUGUST 11. AUGUST 4. DR. f. C. f c. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000 Profits in addition toCapital (Art. 8 law June 9 1857) 5,114,862 48 5,096,101 60 Reserve in the bank and its branches Reserve in landed property 4,000,000 4,000,000 Notes in circulation 777,023,925 786,629,625 Bank notes to order and re- ceipts payable at sight 6,233,349 15 6,056,549 08 Treasury ecu. cur, creditor 57,U68,339 40 55,941,233 85 Curreutaccounts—Paris 122,254,979 44 126,954,304 14 Do. branch-banks 26,611,833 30,859,5d1 Dividends payable Discounts and sundry interests 7,124,840 91 6,308,241 16 Re-discounts of the last eh, months 2,583,735 17 2,588,735 17 Sundries 1,231,833,445 85 1,247,860,613 46 CR. Cash in hand and branch- banks 272,433,487 38 276,790,392 90 Commercial bills ov,rdue 3,246,818 11 1,108,552 95 Commercial bills discounted not yet due . ...330,403,019 35 333,825,422 33 Do. branch-bat:Aut....303,092,656 312,079,470 Advances on deposits of bullion Do. branch. banks 3,957,700 4,101,300 - Advances on Frenchpublic securities!, Do. branch-banks 9,412,8W Ad vances on rah way shares and debentures .. 27,792,900 Do branch-banks.... 16,704,050 Advances on Credit Fon cier Bonds 39.5,000 • Do. branch-banks.... 356,800 Advances to the State 16,579,400 - 9 2 514650 - 28,38),500 - 18;571;060 - 376.100 - 367,100 - (Conv€n. June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000 Guvt. Stock Reserve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 Do. disposable Rentes immobilisees (Law June 9, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank Landed property, branches Expenses of management 712,921 54 690,476 54 Sundries 8,353,452 - `231,833,445 85 1,247,360,613 46 Certified by the Flonorary Vice-President of the Council of State, Governor of the Bank, AD. VUITDX. The Hospital for Consumption, Brompton, A quarterly general court of the governors of this charity was held yesterday afternoon in the room of the hospital. The meeting was pre sided over by Sir Peter Van Notten-Pole, Bart. The Secretary read the report of the eommittee of management for the past quarter, which stated that both as regarded in and out-patients there had been an increase of good done as compared with the corresponding quarter of the preceding year. It was, no doubt, chiefly owing to the large number of admissions consequent upon the maximum number of 210 beds having been filled at an earlier period of the wieter than usual that the committee was enabled to have the satisfaction of announcing that the number of applicants waiting vacancies was, though still large, less than it had been for some time past. The committee had been encouraged by the accession of several names to the list of gover. nors, and by much valuable aid they had received from the clergy, while their thanks were especially due to the Bishops of Ripon, Baegor, Ely, Ossory, and Down and Connor for the able manner in which they had pleaded the cause of the charity. Many kind donations had also resulted from the appeals inserted from time to time ha the newspapers, al though the total amount received from that source had been less than on some previous occasions. Unless, :iowever, the committee chose to seffer the charity to languish for want of funds they had no alternative but to continue their appeals to the pub lic for support io every way that was open to them, so long as the annual expenditure of the institution exceeded the annual subscriptions to the extent of upwards of £4,000. With the help of several lega cies that had recently been paid the committee hoped to be enabled before long to effect the desir able object they had long aimed at, and which had Dien formerly mentioned, namely, the purchasing of the freehold of the land on which the hospital was built. During the past quarter four bequests to the charity of £lOO each, one of £l,OOO, one of £5OO, one of £3OO, one of £5O, and one of £lO had been announced to the committee. The number of in-patients admitted since the 26th of May last had been 213. Of these 132 had been discharged, many of them greatly benefited, and 23 had died. ,The number of new out patient cases was stated to be 1,521. The Hon. E. B. C. WEOTTESLEY moved the adoption cf the report, which having been seconded by Mr C. E. K. Butler, was adopted; and after the transaction of some business of a formal cha racter, the proceedings closed with the customary vote of thanks to the chairman. CROSSING THE ATLANTIC IN A BOAT.—On Sunday, the 26th of June, the miniature brig Vision, the smallest craft that has ever yet attempted to croia the Atlantic, departed from the Battery at New York, direct for Liverpool. She sailed out in gallant style, with colours flying, manned by a crew consisting of John C, Donovan and his dog Toby, and one man, named Williams, from Rhode Island, Her departure was witnessed by a large number of people, who remained, despite the intenFe heat, until the vessel became a speck on the water. Yes terday we received information that the Coronet, from Quebec, at London, had spoken the tiny craft at sea, she being then out 24 days, and having reached lat. 45 10 N , long. 53 W., or the vicinity of Cape Race. " All hands' were well, but short of provisions and water, which the Coronet supplied,—.Lfverpool Mercury. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LRELTTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. Per the Extra Steamer Caledonian via Cape Race and Greencastle.) NEW YORK, AUG. 1. On the 30th ult. General Grant blew up a Con federate fort at Petersburg, He then assaulted and carried a line of Confederate entrenchments. An entire regiment was destroyed together with the fort. The battle was still progressing on Saturday at noon. THE BOMBAY MAIL. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : SUEZ, AUG, 11. The Behar from Bombay, July 24, reached Suez at 7 p.m. today. WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMP TON, AUG. 12. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Seine, with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 177 passengers, 2,585,301 dollars in specie, and 1,183 pt ckages of general cargo. The Seine left St. Thomas on the 28th ult. Fine weather prevailed. Her Majesty's ship Devastation left Panama c.n the 11th ult. for Vancouver's Island. At Valparaiso the Congress was engaged in reor ganising the various courts of justice in the Repub• lie, and planning thi statutes of a National Bank. The deputies are exasperated at the Cabinets withholding from them the correspondence on the Hispans-Peruvian question. The smallpox was infesting the northern pro vinces. At Huasco 400 persons were suffering from the epidemic. Frequent and strong earthquakes were felt at Valparaiso and the neighbouring districts. In Peru the utmost exertions were used by the Government to have all war vessels in readiness, when it is ascertained how the Spanish Admiral will arA on receipt of fresh instructions. Nothing farther had transpired relating to the difficulty between Spain and Peru. Valparaiso exchange on London 44kd to 45d ; on Paris, 4.65 to 4.70. Lima exchange, 37d per dollar. News from Santo Domingo announces that the Dominicans had entrenched themselves around Puerto Plata, but failed to do much damage. They had suffered considerably from five Spanish guns. The Spanish steamer Hamburg, arrived at Havana with 400 wounded and sick from Santo Domingo. A correspondent wriiing from Santo Domingo, says that large numbers of rebels are preparing to make a last effort at Santiago de los Caballeros. The discouragement amongst the Dominicans gains ground, and the insurrection is fast coming to an end. At Demerera general business was quiet, rum was in fair demand, sugar dull, tonnage ample, weather showery but favourable to the crops. Freight of sugar to London 30d. Exchange on London 476 dols. A favourable change has taken place in the weather at Barbadoes, and the prospects of the planters Were encouraging, The health of the island was good. Exchange on London, 485 dole. Rum, abundant. At Grenada, sugar cano, cotton, and cocoa were in a promising condition. Business was rapidly improving. The prospects of next year's crops at J.maica was encouraging. Sugar sales, 253. to 263. per hundred pounds. Ruin, 273. per gallon. Tobacco dull. Coffee scarce. Sales, 60s. to 625. Exchange, half por cent. premium for 90 days. LATEST FROM BERMUDA. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 11. The fine steamer Hayti, Captain Gilberry, be longing to the West India and Pacific Steamship Company (Limited), arrived in the Mersey last night, with dates from Bermuda to the 27th nit. She brings a large and valuable cargo, including upwards of 500 bales of cotton. The following blockade runners were at Bermuda :—The steamers Dieppe, Flamingo, Mary Bowers, and Lillian. The latter bad put back in consequence of her crew having refused to proceed on the voyage. The steamer Let her Rip Lad arrived at Wilmington, and bad been chartered by the Government for harbour duty. Captain Mafat, late of the Florida, bad been ordered by the Confederate Government to the James River, to take command of an ironclad gun boat building there. The steamer Helen bad sailed for Wilmington. S PAIN. MADRID, AUG. 12. The frigate Carmen hag received orders to sail for the Pacific. . A eltalornan commission has arrived at Madrid and will confer with the Government upon the means of terminating the industrial orisis. FRANCE• The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the following as the atmospheric state of Europa yeas terday :--" A very h eav y squall coming from the North of Europe ha s ra pidly invaded the centre of tithe Continent, extending from on Mediterranean. th e western aTs ts he the NE, of France to the greater p ar t o f R u ssia. There is reason to tear that it w i l l cont i nu e to fall as far as the obfa Europe, and the mistral is has rapidly ris en blowing on that of Provence. This squall, which probably is not isolated, and the state of the winds and barometrical pressures on the waste of the Atlantic, make us presume that another is following closely." The .Moniteur de la Rolle states that by a recent decree the salaries of the naval chaplains are fixed as follows :—Chaplain.in.Chief of the fleet from B,ooofr. to 10,000 fr. a .,year ; superior chaplains, 5 , 1300 fr.; chaplains of the fleet and of the ports, Ist class, 2,500 fr, ; 2d class, 2,000 fr. They have also an indemnity for lodging and furniture, and an allowance for the wine and wax lights used at the altar. BOURSE, Au g. 11.—The arriv a l of English Con sols with a r i se o f k h as failed to produce any up ward movement in this market, which still continues in the same inanimate state. Threes, for the Ac count, are unvaried at 66f. 45c. Mobilier have been done at 1,005 f., and are now at I,olof. Railwa3 Shares show but siight variation, with little doing. The market closed as follows : 4j per Cents. 95 00. end per Cents Do. end month 66 40 credit Mobilier 1007 50 00. end month 1007 50 Bank Shares ..3390 ;redit tonoier ~..1215 Roman 68 Do. end month 68 35 Ditto Threes — New Mexican 66 25 aussiau — -- Austrian — Spanirsl2 Threes 49 50 I-loms Debt Deferral - fAlrB. Cash. Account. 586 885 980 912 50 .. 916 25 RA. I.L Orleans .. O .• Northern _ Lyons and Mediterranean New ditto Southern .. 640 .. 641 25 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spin Saragossa 507 50 .. 507 50 Ditto to Barcelona ~,, 232 60 t , 235 -- LITERATURE, A National Benefactor's Autobiography. Passages of a Working Life during Half-a Century. By Charles Knight. Vols. I. and IL Bradbury and Evans. Beginning life as a publisher and bookseller, the writer of this manly end charming autobiography hes long since assumed to himself a yet more re- ' cognisable position, and in his instance it is one of very considerable eminence, as a man of letters. Charles Knight we know now-a-days far more as a man of letters than as a publisher and bookseller. ' Regarded in the latter capacity he is to be seen only, as it were, in perspective. It seems to be a long , while now since he kept a printing establishment at Windsor and a bookshop in Pell Mall. We have to look bsck beyond a considerable interval even to recognise him as ho was when he had his name issued from the press, across his own counter in Ludgate hill, at the bottom far more frequently than at about the middle of many a popular and widely circulating publication. Yet further back, he has here intro duced himself to us at the very commencement of these ingenuous memorials of his Lif e—a life, let us say at once, as honourable from first to last as it nes been laborious throughout—beyond the oe eene ing of this present century, we there b' l aold him as he appears to himself in his c)-- ern retrospec tive glance as among t h :4 earliest of his personal recollections -- we there behold him yonder dwindled down, as it were, by a mere effort of diste:ace into the appearance of a little child in a , white frock and a black sash I A half• orPh'ened child, then but very recently bereft of his l'eung mother, and as, by a natural consequence of that event, fairly idolised by the poor sorrow stricken widower his father—a Windsor tradesman, more noticeable as a bookworm than as a bookseller. Between that far-off period and the present hour stretch back the years described in this truthful and graceful autobiography. The interval—as will be found, indeed, to have been pretty clearly intimated here upon our author's title-page—the goodly in terval extending between the Now and Men being made up of fully Half-a-Century of a genuine Working Life—led off, that half century of a Work ing Life, by a " Prelude of Early Recollections." The result of it all being—what is here most interestingly related by Mr Knignt himself, but what we as among those numerous and grateful admirers of his,whom he has for years been helping so largely to benefit by his labours—knew to a great extent before any of these memorials appeared, knew, that is to say, from the mere facts and fruits of those very labours them selves. For, applying here that happy phrase of Wordsworth's about the child being tether of the man, may we not put it thus•—that the little child in the white frock and she black sash has developed into a man sufficiently noteworthy to be entitled, as we have here eagerly and gladly entitled him at the commencement of these remarks, namely, as " A, National Benefactor ?" Is be not 80 ? Answer this —any number that may anywhere be found of really intelligent and educated Englishmen! For, in point of tact, in simplest truth, what are among the many conspicuous titles to oar gratitude, towards Castries Knight as a Popular Benefactor ? He has done more practical good service than I any other English Worker that could be named in furthering the great cause of Popular Education. He has done single-handed among Euglisemen in this cause, in the interests of this cause, in its general and comprehensive deve lopment, what William and Robert Chambers have done together among Scotchmen. And—without being in any way invidious while saying so—we would here add that Charles Knight has, in simple matter of fact, done yet more than those two emi nent popular publishers of Edinburgh. The com parison between the two houses, between that of the Englishman and that of the Scotchmen, has been originated, not by ourselves, but by one of our contemporaries. Therefore it is that, without any imputation of appearing invidious while doing so, we may here strenuously protest, as we feel constrained in fact to do, out of a mere sense of justice, we may here strenuously protest against any pre-eminence being accorded to Robert Chambers over Charles Knight. They are worthy rivals, they are worthy contemporaries ; but, if their names must be brought thus into di rect comparison, pre-eminence ought rather, to our I mind, to be accorded, not as one of our contem poraries has accorded it, to the reputed author of the '. Vestiges of Creation," but, on the contrary, to Charles Knight, to that " good grey head," to that honest right hand from which have emanated other nobler works, either wholly original or thoroughly and laboriously edited, works far and away beyond any deistical geological speculation upon cosmogony that ever was written For, has not Charles Knight taken his place recoge nisably—among the Historians of England ? —among the Commentators on Shakspere ? among the most luminous of our National Eacyclonvolists 1a. , --among the most skilled Topo graphers of London ?—besides squandering broads cast over the land during fully one quarter of a century all those seeds of truth, scientific, artistic, and literary—seeds of truth sown by him as the Publisher, as the Enter, as the Worker, it. behalf and by the authority of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge ? To him we are indebted for that famous Penny Magazine that was the pioneer and forerunner of all our cheap and wholesome, of all our instructive and entertaining periodical pub:ioations. Upwards of thirty years ago the " Penny Magazine," under the direction of Charles Knight, enjoyed (in 1832) an average circulation of 200,000! Yet, as Mr. Knight has himself been enabled to say now of that famous periodical, "in it there has never been a single sentence that could infl 'me a vicious appetite, and not a paragraph that could minister to prsj uaices and superstitions, which a few years since were common ; there have been no excitements for the lovers of the marvellous, no tattle or abuse for the gratification of a diseased taste for personality, and above all, no party politics." No wonder that in the following year the marvellous success achieved by the Penny Magazine induced a man of Mr. Knight's enterprise to embark upon even so gigantic an undertaking as the .publication (begun in 1833) of the Penny Cyclopeedia. Upon the labours of Charles Knight however, as Publisher, as Editor, as Author, it were superfluous here to expatiate. They are known intimately and they are honoured accordingly. His "Pictorial Shakspere" is among the very noblest 1 editions of the greatest of our national poets, the greatest of all poets. His " London" is the most comprehensive work upon the metropolis of Eng.% land, of the British EinpirO, of the World. His "Shilling Library" will always " hold its own among cheap and popular repertories of that character. His " History of England" —utterly mistaken though we ourselves deem so very many among its views to be—is more intensely national, is more thoroughly popular, is more corn • ' pletely a History of England, of the English People, ' ' a nd not merely of the English Sovereigns, than any other work upon the same subject that could be very readily mentioned. His Once upon a Time ' again turning hero for a moment to his less ambitious and more miscellaneous productions — surely those who have read it, as we have done, with so thoroughly enjayable a satisfaction, will speak of it only as a sort of model work of its class, being, as full as an egg is of meat, crammed from cover to cover with instructive entertainment. And Charles Knight's Autobiographic. " Passages of a Working Llfc During Half a Century"—a work two thirds of which are happily completed, lying here before us in effort, as they do, in these two goodly volumes but just now submitted to our consideration—is a iiterary production that in the pervading style and manner of it, is very much of a-piece with the charmingly discursive pages last mentioned. Only here, in this later work, there is of course the added interest of a consecutive narrative, perfected, so speak, by that nameless charm which is in separable from all autobiographic confidences. As .fford;ng a taste of the quiet humour lies-miring the narrative of these memorials here—is Mr. Knight' a comical illustrative mention of the manner in which justice was administered some half a century ago by one of the then magistracy : Under the guidance of the town clerk, corporate magis trates generally got through their business decently. Some times they made little slips. Late in the evening an offender was brought before one of our mayors, having been detected in stealing a smock-frock from a pawnbroker's door. "Look in 'Burns's Justice,' " said his worship to his son; "look in the index for smock-frock," " Can't find it, father. Not there." " What! no law against stealing smock-frocks ? D-- my heart, young fellow, but you've had a lucky escape." Hardly so decorous appears to have been the system in vogue, about the same time, among those who bad the management (even in a royal chapel) of the re ligious ceremonies of the Church as by Law E3ta blished : ex. gr.— I have seen, s tys Mr. Knight, a stranger civilian stalk (with his spurs on) into the choir of St. G-orge's Chapel. The spur was instantly detected ; abei when the bewildered man was su -rounded by a bevy of white surplices Rs he loitered in the nave, there was no help for him but to pay the spur-money. Such interruptions to the beauty and solemnity of the service were not sufficient to prevent their abiding impres sions ; and thus the salt of devotion was not wholly washed out of me. I was, however, well nigh rushing into the desert, in going through the ceremony which was to keep me in the cold. I had diligently prepared myself for confirmation. Dr Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury, was to perform the rite. There was an absence of all solemnity, and even of decency, upon which I look back with disgust. I still see the bishop's officers driving the young people to the altar. rails as if they were sheep going to the fair ; the monotonous formality of the imposition 'f hands upon the huddled batches who knelt a few minutes, and then were chased back to their seats by the impatient ministers of the solemnity. Its failure altogether to satisfy my excited feelings compelled me into a passion of tears, and I went home and told my father that I would be a Quaker or Unitarian. I think that confirma tion confirmed whatever was sceptical in my composition ; and I had to escape into the region of natural piety, and long dwell there, before I could become' reconciled to the estab lishment which could endure such profanations. As affording a very striking contrast between what is and what has been, the following account by Charles Knight of the duties devolving half a century back upon one of the then Volunteers will be read with the liveliest interest, we doubt not, by our Victorian Riflemen. The Cambridge organisation was complete. At Windsor, the chief business of life appeared to be volunteer drills and reviews. My father was a lieutenant in our local corps, and I was ever at his side in those midsummer mirchings and counter-marchings. This volunteering was not altogether playing at soldiers. Oar volunteer had some work to perform wholly unknown to the volunteer of Queen Victoria. He had to pipe-clay his white breeches and gaiters. He had to polish the bright barrel of his musket till he could eee his face in it. "Brown Bass" was a later invention. He had to grease and !bur his hair like a modern footman ; and then to wash the grease and flour out, till he was fit to stand at the Conn' er and sit at the desk, like an honest tradesman. He had no railway to carry him to a review ; but marched through the night to Bulmarsh Heath, near Reading, to take his place amongst the other bold warriors of Berkshire. The discipline was not very exact. I have laughed, although T was scanda lised, to see an impudent corporal play tricks with his lieutenant's queue. Rods were sometimes left in the bar rel when a volley was fired, to the no small danger of the colonel in front. We had a yeomanry corps, composed of the choicest spirits of our town. It was commanded by a pursy wine -merchant, who was not so well mounted as his men. On more than one occasion, when he headed a charge, they would open right and left, and leave him behind, when he roared, " Unparalleled in the annals of war, gentlemen." Full of fun as they were, our volunteers would have fought to death if the necessity had come. The volunteer of my boyhood was not altogether unprepared for war ; for there was a ball practice at a target fixed in a chalk-pit. But, as far as I recollect, the hits were as few as the ordinary calculation as to the musket-firing in a field of battle—that not one shot in a hundred told. But what cf that ? There was the same emulation as I have rejoiced to look upon in the noble rivalry of the Wimbledon meeting of 1863. Though sixty years have made all the diffarence between the musket and the rifle, and more difference in the skill of the volunteer the emulation both of one period and the other is derived from our ancestry. From first to last, we have never found the interest of this work flag in the perusal of it. It is precisely the very kind of autobiography we should have expected from the hand of Charles Knight—un affected, manly, vivacious, entirely devoid of self glorification, nudisfigured by evidences of designed reticence or intentional concealment, and this for the simple reason enough that a manly, truthful, honest, open nature like that of Charles Knight had nothing whatever to conceal. Enough however, if we close these remarks of ours with two very brief but sufficiently significant observations—each of them distinctive of the man—each of them a very noble panygeric. Firstly, that it will be remem bered of Charles Knight that be was the friend and fellow labourer of Brougham. Secondly, and finally, that it was more than a mere radiant witticism of Douglas Jerrold's when—on being asked one nigh , by our author, on their way home together, if be (Jerrold) "could suggest a fitting epitaph for his companion's tombstone—Jerrold answered at the streetcorner, with a hearty grasp of the hand at parting—" Good Knight !" Toddles's highland Tour. With 21 illustrations. Pp. 150. Routledge and Co. Under this ridiculous title —as, " Tlie Strange Adventures of Richard Toddles and Tom Scepwell during their Journey in Scotland"—the reader is here presented with a really useful as well as entertaining guide book, showing him the way to a very cheap and, at the same time, a very delightful excursion. Daring the Nine Days occupied by Toddles and Stepwell in traversing the route marked out for themselves north of the Tweed—these two excursionists certainly contrive to make a Nine Day's Wonder of it, by seeing so much and paying so little. For, which in effect among the sights that ought to be seen upon a Scottish tour do these knapsacked lowlanders not see yonder in the land of cakes ? Loch Lomond, Glencoe, Fart William, Ben Nevis, Kitliecrankie, the Trosachs, Holyrood, Melrose, Abbotsford, Dryburgh—with a multitude of other famous localities, hill and dale, river and lake, inhabited building and deserted ruin—Toddles and Stepwell visit together. And yet—at the end of all their pleasant sightseeing and gad ding about, hither and thither, they have spent absolutely not a ten-pound note a-piece! The sum total of their expenditure from the hum of their starting upon their holiday expedition to that of their return homewards, being jotted down, item by item, during the course of their nar rative—the sum total being given upon the last page as, to a nicety, just exactly £lB 16s. 24. It we are not very much mistaken, Mr I%l'Connell's pencil has contributed to this pleasant little gossip ping guide book through Scotland two or three at least out of the twenty-one illustrations scattered through it. INTERESTING DISCOVERY OF ROMAN REMAINS. —The excavations in Hot Bath-street for the new wing of the Bath United Hospital, the foundations of a large Roman building have been recently discovered. These foundations are exeeedingly strong, and indicate that the building to which they belonged must have been one of some importance. The base of pillar, turned upside down, and built into the foundation, was likewise found, and appears to have formed part of even an older structure. This week a further interesting discovery has been made, in the course of excavating the site of the house lately in the occupation of Mr William Foote, Lower Borough-walls. This discovery consists of a large portion of a beautiful tasse• lated pavement. The pavement seems to have formed the flooring of a room about, 12 feet square, and rests upon pil. lars and hollow tiles—the tiles having been used for heating purposes. The designof the pavementis different to any found in Bath before : in the censre is a rose, which is surrounded by several borders of geometrical pattern. Enough of the pavement remains to enable an accurate sketch of its entire design to be taken. The foundation of the dwelling just re moved was built upon this hollow Roman floor, and the pave meat is in consequence much crushed and thrown out ot its level. A. second pavement, composed of larger tesserce, ad joins this first one, and eppears to have been the floor of a passage or vestibule leading to the apartment. Tracings of the designs are being taken, and the interesting remains will be preserved with jealous c Are. Some fragments of Roman pottery have also kern turned up in the course of the exca vations. The discovery has come just in time for ate meet ing of the British A.,sociation, and is to be regarded as a valuable addition to the relics connected with die Roman ' occupation of the city of King Bladud.—Bath Chronicle. A call of £5 per share has been made by the Continental Bank Corporation, to be paid on or before the 10th proximo. During the last few days there has been very little animation in the Foreign and Colonial Pro duce Markets, Sugars have barely sustained former prices, while coffee has also been rather cheaper. tea has been in moderate request at steady rates, while in rice, fruit, spices, and tal!ow there have oeen no dealings ot importance. P.Y.C. on Vic spot is quoted 41s 93, and last three month deli very 43:1 Od per cwt; 0 7 51 7:: ✓ 4, HER MAJESTY, OSBORNE, August 11. Her Majesty and the Royal Family drove out in the morning and afternoon of yesterday. The Right Hon. E. Cardwell arrived at Osborne, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and Royal Family. Prince and Princess Leiningen also dined with her Atijesty. His Royal Highness Prince William of rrussia, attended by Baroness Dobeneck and Major Vo° Sonweini?z, left Osborne this morning on his return to Germany. Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary will leave The Cottage, Kew, to-day, on a visit to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Weiss in Scotland. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have been entertaining the following company at Kimbolton Castle, during the week;--Marie Marc hi o ness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Hartington, M.P., th e Earl of Coventry, the Earl and Countess of W est moreland, Viscount Canterbury, Lord Proby , George Fitzw lliam, Mr Leslie, &c. The Duchess of Wellington has left Apsley 1:1°11se for Glasgow, to meet his grace, who left tow n s days since. Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury has left 1011' bolton Castle, on a visit to the Ear! of Sandwich at Hinchinbrooke. The Earl and Countess Spencer have been enter taining a large parry at Althurpe Park during the week. The Earl of Coventry left town yesterday for Hungerford, Berkshire. The Earl and Countess of Morley and Lad/ Catherine have left town for Sunning Hill; Viscoun t Boringdun has left for Scotland for the shollug season. Ca e s Count Maffei has returned to town from to take the direction of the I . alian Legation during the absence of his Excellency the Marquis d'Az e g O : Lord L'anover has left town for the Contin ent ' her ladyship is at Llanover, near AbergavennY• Lord and Lady Templemore will shortly leave Bruton-street for Danbrody Park, county 'Well° THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE SCOTTISH ARCHERS.—It is intended to present a bonnet 131 the Society of the Ancient Archers of Kil w inning t o the Prince of Wales on having accepted the office (which the Prince Consort also hold). The bonnet ja quisitely got up, and reflects the greatest credits on all cow corned. It is in shape the same as worn by he arch.er! while shooting at papingo, and the inside is lined witt white satin, and in the centre the Prince of Wale,s' coat ° is ` arms is beautifully embroidered, and below the wordy arms origr* " Dien," 1183—fh, date when the society noted.—Edinburgh Daily Review. , TT ONE OF THE JiINDOO GODS OF DEAL" --- ; STRANGE AND HORRIBLE IDOL :—." W ita jar ': at t h e 31 0- large protruding eyes, prominent nose, curved trils and point, wide mouth, thick, sensual-lookiug of patron two upper and two lower tusks, it presented a very rernard able and by no means pleasing appearance. On the head was a tiara studded with cleverly chiselled death IT the long ears were pierced with ornaments ver y hideous atbj cut, and from the cartilage of both were suspe nded skulls. Numbers of chains were hung round the neck, But, a loose scarf fell across the broad chest f rom the lei' shoulder to the right. Massive bracelets eLcircled the writs and biceps, and the right arm was slightly raise d ' or , giving emphasis to an oracle. A belt of skuas macircle,a the corpulent stomach, and the left hand res ted on a walk ing-stick or sceptre of stone, — Mr d'Alm eida's book de' scriptive of " Lite in Java," recently publi shed by Ilurst and Blackett. SINGULAR WlLLS.—There lately died at SzeP e° Vallarya an old man of 78 years of age, whose will con tained a clause leaving 100,000 cigars for those who migh t attend his funeral. The eccentic testator also expressed his desire that his friends should not leave the house of mourning without drinking to his memory all the wi° left in his cellar. It is said that the wish of the de ceased was entirely fulfilled.—Brazil and River Pala Mail. A . r t h A e xt w ß 0 R r A d ....... Thlelt.E. little'' w NEW A o T n T d ß e A r C i T n lo e N ve A ry T T se H n E se for the lady is only 4 feet 8 inches in height—Margare t Douglas, is hastening merrily and gamely on to the coat pletion of her herculean task of walking a thousand miles in a thousand consecutive hours. The bulletins announce the performance of 192 miles, but there is no appearance °f effort or fatigue in the champion female pedestr an of the world—who, in the opinion of some of the most experienced " professors," will bring her task to the same s uccessful issue she did in Australia, The daily and nightly inor ees ing number of visitors attest in tide most unmistakeable manner the awakening interest of the public to witness the little lady's performance. DANGERS OF A " HEADER" IN SO ALLOW. WAThR.—We hear almost every year of arWi ° serious or even fatal accident at watering p laces from tile dangerous habit of plunging hea d foremost t on nto g water that is to shallow. This should nev er be done ilkni: .) less the water is ac least 4 or 5 feet deep. Surgical boo 0 are full of cases of broken vertebra, but un luckily thSey ar... on"it not known to the persons who need the in his edition of Chelius, tells of a sailor, 40 years of age tt, t e iu good health, who jumped headlong from a she in u t ila ca sea to bathe, a sail being spread a few feet below Ihe : ber ks. caution. to receive the bathers and to protect them fro/a b aleback on It is supposed that his head was violently t'' re ga 0 the ediately coming in contact with the water or sail, as I I- -- ,,f ha necies became m otionless . When got on deck, a" 4.- t ,, er ved of the limbs and trunk below the shoulders wets CI " - the to be paralysed, and respiration was performed bYwe___ diaphragm alone. The circulation and temperature r rt r i : natural, and the senses perfect. in a f ew hours fte j3d be . occurrence of the accident, vomiting commenced' ii o f 48 came more frequent till he died at the expirationolv jou hours. Upon examination, the fourth and fifth oed for' vertebra were found completely crushed and for e „, low wards on the spinal marrow, which was crushed. an t ' euts ,, rated. This preparation is in St. Thomas's Mus_ Another man threw himself into a river to bathe fro Wirie eight 7or 5 feet, bng on 3 feet deep, 0 f7b carne up of to thec surface and water immeeidiatelyly fell ba ck I tto bottom. The bystandere observing ho made no atterciP the , swim, drew him out and lifted him insensible accident' d bank. He ed .n 10 hours and a half a fter the oa rt ebra al and after death it was found that the fifth cervical ve P tetelr was broken across, and the two pieces were f , crushed in upon the spinal cord. So bathers beWaret°o. " header" in sb.allow water. Plung e deep or Uot a —Medical 2unes and Gazette. k 1;° rag or bTAINED GLASS COMPETITION. 1. Ta — to the Committee of Council on Education desire_ _ , obtain for the South Kensington Museum a designsv.7 a stained glass window, having a northern lighto,ns__o4_,z., semicircular head, and of the following Thedimenl winviicor 181 t 9in high to crown of arch, by lift wide. 2. steorner of the may be seen on a staircase at the no rth-7 d e . rations of tb e Great Northern Court. The architecture ,co haracter. '1.1313‘ staircase will be of an Ital an llanaissiance characters ha ter °` subject of the design is furnished by the cp . "3 I'll° Ecelesiasticus, verse 24 to the end of the chapter. ._ on ct be on the scale of one inch. to the fo°' 4 design is to ca rtoon u coloured. It is to be accompanied by a .c..a1l size ec .. , 00 , design of a sufficient portion to eho‘w the ex n t : it , the • execu te( ' and a specimen of a portion of the des), g'll . 0 art ist , glass, of the full size. 4. The competition ii; 01)5deec; for t lI : of all nations. 5. A sum of £lO will boa W ar 03 oi. and S SIX . .. design which appears to be most suitable, will be i n £2O for the next best design. 6. The judcaS w' solely upon structed to award the prizes to the designs' ble c ost cif artistic merits, without reference to tha prolks 0 , 0 by 6 execution. 7. Each design must be uccompt3, :__ ea be sealed tender stating the cost at which the des 11 ,9 0 t o executed, the time the execution is likely to takee 7 .. et tea name and address of the artist. 8. The designs 17 stoo e a M ' pit ders must be sent to the South Kensington , 8 pit or before May 1, 1865. 9. The names of the in°!_ l l , the be published hereafter. 10. The designs to vi . n t ' L i te c i s . prizes are awarded will become the properti of _OOO t which however noes not bind itself f ° 1 col partmen , Cohn ° either of them. — By order of the Committee of Educa tion. W oB l4 ' F R IGHTFUL OCCURRENCE AT C ARRON A o 1 11 0' . „h , —On Wednesday night Mr James George Iti'". , et ihe deputy con,ner for East Middlesex, held an M a l t : J o Jeatli . Deck Hotel, Upper East Smithfield, respeeting:t'llie tilde' of William Reardon, aged 45 years, w ho ° Decto' c under the following frightful circumstances . 0 woe en: was a labourer. On Friday afternoon last h . .. o ar'o gaged with other men on board the ship Cltlth_v't, 50,ith: alongside the Carron Wharf, Lower z . ",.. 0.0 pty 0 ! field (near St. Katharine 's Decks) in raising n _ 4 4 ~, erar . pig iron from the hold of the vessel by roes l een u l The men overloaded one portion, and they _ had they had Wh en ddo ll tinned by Mr. Hickman, the stevedore. ra __ . ti e . raised about a ton of metal the chain of the upon re'deceass: snapped, and the whole mass of iron fell u o p f t'l in his brain °,..9r, crushing his head and scattering. porno:lst_ a_ebeerlinsai the lower part of the vessel. Death inns h , ..... taneous. Verdict, accid ental death. p's ACV' sTAT- -- d rho WEST INDIAN ENCUMBERED 3 . ti _, adopte t. _ The Legislature of the colony of Antigu h..o7,.arryityg tot .-.1 local act I r v above acts, and passed the Us.-- game into eatecutiA,